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A certain maiden voyager on the N. Y. K. Orient-California motor-liner "CHICHIBU MARU." sistership of " ASAMA MARU” and "TATSUTA MARU," writes in his letter of appreciation:
I am an old traveler more proneTM
to criticise than to praise but cannot leave this ship without letting you know how much 1-appre- ciate the efforts of the entire crew to make one feel at home. The boat itself is beautiful, well laid out and one of the most comfortable on which I have traveled."
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. THURSDAY, JULY 31, -1930.
WHY SAILORS LEAVE HOME.
FOOD NOT GOOD ENOUGH
WHAT WIVES TELL THE CHAPLAIN.
Wives of able seamen," stokers, nad other lower-deck ratings of the British Navy are annoyed with the Admiralty.
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TO-DAY'S MONEY VOTES.
BROADCASTING; KELVINA- TORS; KOWLOON SCHOOL:
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL FINANCE COMMITTEE.
“MUSICAL AND THE ALL-BROW."
MUSICAL TEAM WORK.
EXTRACTS FROM LAST NIGHT'S BROADCAST.
Last night', broadcast talk on The following items of supple "Music and the all-Brow" was mentary expenditure will be pre-mainly a synopsis of the previous incurred sented today for consideration by instalments, of this weekly serial, The Admiralty has
the Finance Committee of the Legis- viz., their displeasure by providing sea- men with einemas, gramophones,lative Council and four well-chosen and expertly
cooked meals every dives can-
The result is that the
not compete with the Admiralty, and men on leave grumble at home cooking and express an anxiety to the get back to the barracks or battleship.
This is a typical, everyday menu for lower-deck ratings provided by the Royal Navy of 1830 at the cost of 15. id. a day for each man :----
Breakfast Bacon and egg, tea, bread (unlimited) and butter. Dianer-Tomate soup, roast veal and stuffing (two helpings if pota- required). Cauliflower, toes, trifle.
Tea-Strawberries, bread (un-
limited) and butter, tea...
Supper-Sardises and bread
and
new
To cover the salary up to
May 29, of the Deputy Treasurer, Mr. Edwin Taylor..... Broadcasting
Central British School, Buildings, Central British
School
This
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(1) Music is a coherent sequence, of sound changes.
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The Common Chord,”
(2) To lasting and pleasing, a tune must have rhythm, notes dif- 88,000fering, in length here and there, ... 89,600 a definite key, and phrases or ideas between imaginary punctuation: The present monthly subsidy to
marks. the Broadcasting Programme Com-
Last night's subject of "Musical mittee is 3300 per month. sum has been found inadequate and Team Work" is simply what, the its increase to $1,000 per month is musician, calls "Harmony" and recommended. From this sum will be paid the salaries of all employees consists in the harmonious play of a team of notes under the control in the Studio, with the result that two electricians now working thereof their Captain, the tune. It is would be released for their proper usual to describe harmony as the wark elsewhere where their services
Now let us call the notes of the garments which adorn the naked' are urgently needed.
time," or melody. This metaphor senle 1, 1, 2, 9, 3, 4, 41, 5, 51, breaks down in two places. It ime, 63, 7 and 8. Listen to 1 and plies that a tune on its own is
1 played together. Excruciating, In the opinion of the Education unsatisfying or incomplete. Is this isn't it. 1 and 2 combined are al- Board the following improvements really so? Mankind's natural memost as bad. I and 2 blend all are urgently necessary for improvthods of note production are limit-right bat sound rather mournful ing the efficiency and amenities of to whistling, humming and sing together, but I and 3 are complete the Central British School, namely:
ly satisfying. If, you carry Alterations for housewifery classes ing, each method being restricted to a single note at a time. Yet
right up the scale on the same lines. (including furniture); increased
you will find that the only satisfy- ing combination of notes are 1-3 and 1-5. Strike all three notes together...Don't you agree that this family of three is completely reposefult This chord is so im portant and frequently met with that it is called the "common chord" of the key. And it makes no difference to the completeness lorries that are about to arrive and then too, clothing is really for duty in Kowloon, and it is only of conventional value; it mere of their effect if any one of them therefore essential that provision be ly consists of garments, the shape is transferred to the storey above or below. In this way you get 3 made for their housing as early as possible; the garage will form part and pattern of which are of little of a scheme for the future enlarging importance, being entirely subser- separate relative positions of the vient to the individual wearing notes, known as the 1st, 2nd and of the station.
them. Is this fair to the harmonics 3rd "inversions of the common which are as vitally important as chord. the tune itself No; the team. simile is far more sound.
butter, cocoa or coffee. "Sailors and their wives ask me to settle most of their domestic dis-class rooms (including furniture); perfectly satisfying effects can be obtained by performing certain putes," said the Rev. C. H. R. Co. additional lavatories (including all fittings); sunblinda; alterations to cup, chaplain of the Royal Naval windows; and alterations to shely-appealing melodies, or, let us say,
"tuneful tunes," on their own. Barracks, Portsmouth, "and I finding,
Take the "Londonderry Air" as that a great number of them are
an instance-you doubtless know it cansed by the men's dissatisfaction
padded out with words and har with the food provided at home."
monies hardly worthy of it and "Spoiled Child."
described as "Danny Boy"
Kowloon, Buildings: garage -disinfecting station, gar age for motor lorries at Kowloon Disinfecting Station
$3,000
for 1
At the present there is no garage The sailor on leave, according to accommodation available his wife, is a spoiled child...
This is her story:-"
When tea time comes round he asks. Where are the strawberries Strawberries! I say. Strawber ries? Why you will be wanting winkles next.'"
I get them for tea in the Navy 'And with watercress,' he says, sometimes I get chocolate eclairs and cherry cake and shrimps. And for supper 1 gét haricot mutton Sussex stew, or sausages and gravy, or savory mince and rice, or pressed beef or soused mackerel.
Or
And for breakfast I get fried eggs, boiled eggs, fillet of cod, grill- ed herrings, sausages and eggs, or whiting.'
Contribution by Govern- ment towards funds for Reclamation. Final call! due to be paid by Govern
881,228 ment The Praya East Reclamation Scheme has now been completed at n cost (including certain contingent works to be undertaken later) of 35,421,493.38.
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The total amount of the Govern- ment's contribution is $1,085,775.40 as against the estimate of $1,095,000, Kelvinators for Cape D'Águilar.
"Kel- two Purchase of
for Cape
vinators"
D'Aguilar W/T
Test Team Simile. The finest music of all consists of a perfect tune backed up by brilliant supporting notes. Let us regard such a piece of music as the English Test Team. Chapman is the melody, associated with and controlling the rest of the players. He can, on occasion, stand on bis 31,183 own feet and justify himself in It is proposed to purchase two dividually-as a batsman. Yet, if Kelvinator refrigerating machines, he is called off the field, the others each of a capacity of six cubic feet,
can carry on adequately, though for the two sets of quarters at Cape D'Aguilar Wireless Telegraph naturally not quite so well as when Stations at a cost of $1,190, Ice is he is present to bind them toge not procurable there. Funda are at scarresent available, under the above ther. (This idea of carrying on
vote, but as this unforeseen expen-without the captain will diture may later cause a deficiency for discussion later.) a supplementary vote for the above" amount is now requested..
"Well, I say, 'Perhaps you would like to go back to the Navy now before your leave's up?
Ard
he says, 'Perhaps I would, and
then the row starts.
Starting a Bow. ""And later on," says the man's wife, "he says, 'Got any books to read?und I say, 'Yes, I've got Ethel M. Dell'e latest,' and he sneers and says, 'What about Shakespeare We've got Shakespeare and Shaw and Wells and Conrad in the library aboard ship. And we've got palms in the reading room, too.!
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Home for Women and Girls. Salvation Army Women's
Industrial Home
$1,000
come up
on
SAILORS HOME AND SEAMEN'S MISSIONS.
PLAN FOR AMALGAMATION.
At to-day's meeting of the Legis- lative Council, an Ordinance to
provide for incorporation of the Sailors Home and Missions to
Seamen is to come up for its first reading..
By the terms of an agreement the dated February 20, 1930, trustees of the Sailors Home and of the Missions to Seamen agreed to amalgamate on the terms therein set out. The main object of the Ordinance now being introduced is to secure the smalgamation of the two corporations and their works...
Owing to the changing nature of the Colony's needs it has been felt for some years that the Sailors' Home does not now meet the needs of the officers and men for whose use the premises are intended, ing from the centre of the town. owing to the distance of the build The trustees of the Sailors' Hemet have recently agreed with the Hong Kong Government for the surrender. to the Government of the property at West Point in consideration of. the sum of 8000,000.
Just one more experiment and we shall have finished this drud gery. Notes 1 and 2 were quite satisfying, though mournful. Sub
The Missions to Seamen in Hong common chord, and you get the Kong is a branch of the Missions- to Seamen whose head office is in atitute this pair for 1 and 3 in the
London and whose organization sadness. As the, distance from 1
embraces the whole world. The same resposeful effect, tinged with
Seamen is the provision of an in- 10, 3 is further than from 1 to 27, the combinations 1-3-5 and 1.25-6 work and object of the Missions to Al-stitute for the welfare of the sea- are known as the major and miner common chords respectively.
years successfully run an institute lowing for the 3 inversions of each, faring classes. It has for rouny at 21, Praye East, but owing to the this gives us 6 reposeful chords.
Now, with these six chords to music and see how it is put toge Reclamation this property is play with, let us tackle a piece of development of the Praya East ther. An excellent field for investi- longer on the water-front and as Bcient for the combined purposes of God our help in ages past. gation is a hymn book. Take "Oba building the institute is not suf- they are played, notice how all the the Missions to Seamen and of the chords, consisting of the tune of Sailors Home. its team-mates, can be run to earth as one of 6 common chords, elther of the keynote or of other notes in its scale.
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It is intended that the new cor poration shall erect & suitable: building on a site belonging to the Missions to Senmen on the Prays.
Now we cannot appreciate
on therein the work and objects of game completely without having a
If you have grasped all the fore-East Reclamation and shall carry the Bailors Home and Missions-to" rough idea of its rules. So now,
Seamen. sad to confess, you must put up going, you are now familiar with un that the entire basic principle of har-. with a few comments bugbear to all musical enthusiasm mony. Needless to say there are which affect this "main principle, The Salvation Army authorities the "scale. However, hateful as many and various subsidiary laws scope of this series of talks, I don't have established a Women's Indus the scale may be, there are one. trial Home for Chinese women and or two points about it of very con- but, as they are rather beyond the
Vamping. girls. The proposals have been ex-siderable interest.
Take a note at random and play propose to bore you with them. amined by the Hon. Secretary for
There is just one thing that the scale of it upwards. Please. note that at the top of this string.
might as well be pointed out, Take of eight notes is one of equal re- pose to the first one. It is there the common chords of notes 1, 4 fore virtually the same note, higher and and you will find that one up, and is known as the octave
"And I say again, Perhaps you had better go back to your old, Chinese Affairs and he advises that the institution is worthy of Govern battleship now. And be
ment support. A grant of 9900 por Perhaps I had,' and then another month is suggested to commence in August, and a vote for 81,000 for row starte"
1930 is accordingly requested.
The Rev. C. H. R. Cocup thinks that the reading-rooms (with palms), the cinema, the interesting. lectures and the food have chang ed the British Navy.
Many of the lower-deck. rat ings," he said, "pass examinations which I could not pass. They read the works of Bernard Shaw, and some of them can quote Shakes peare, Conrad remains the fav ourite in the Mbraries, and Edgar Wallace is about twelfth on the list for popularity.
They are also well instructed in raval history and the men who will show visitors over the Victory during Navy Week, from August 2 to August 9, will be able to ex- plain everything"
OCTOBER 10 A GENERAL
•HOLIDAY
GIRL SPLASHED WITH
GREEN INK
STRANGE ASSAULT CASE..
While walking along Pokfulam Road with her brother-in-law on July 30, Chinese girl had her jacket soiled through a man throw- ing atin of green ink at her from the back. A commotion ensued and the man was arrested while attempt ing to run away kelgan make
He was produced before Mr. E Lindsell it the Central Magis tracy yesterday and charged with wilfully damaging the woman's jacket.
ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMMES BRIGHTER BROADCASTING,
ARRANGED BY Z.B.W..
will
Radic enthusiasts will be pleased to hear that for to-morrow's concert few local microphone favourites be assisting, as well as a new comer to the Hong Kong Studio in This is welcome news indeed, and the person of Mr. V. C. Labrum. the programme is one which no one can afford to mis
of the first one. We will consider or other of them makes a fitting background to any simple tune. these two as being on separate These are used very much at "mok "storeys with a staircase between, up which you take 7-steps to climbing concerts" and so on where per- formers turn up without the writ
Mr. and Mrs. McLeod, who have But in addition there are 5 shorter ten music and their use is known stairs that we have missed, in our
as "vamping." steps, making 7+5-12 stairs alloge So far the captain bas done al previously performed with much and soprano solos. The programme ther. These ball stairs are not the most all the work. It is up to his success, will oblige with baritope team to become more efficient.ill be opened by a contribution of full length of the ones we walked on and seem to have been put in their positions in a most irrational They, the team, should rack in the popular music from the Radio Way
The morning church service on Sunday will be relayed from the Union Church.
Following the success of the Studio Players last Monday, the same company will give two sketches on Monday next. The first of these,
best musie be a coherent and
course of the programme Mr. G. separte sequence of notes. Now Office's String Trio and in the If you were asked, you would for an example have a loɔk át hymn. W. Tene will again perform at the
piano. is being arranged for Saturday, probably say that the musical dia 172 in the Ancient and Modern- tance from any note in the scule Praise to the Holiest and repark to its neighbour is always the same, how each member of the team An organ recital by Mr..F. Mason the keynote and the first step. In about in agreement with the sub-be broadcast that evening. Not a bit of it; listen? Here is treble, alto, tenor or base-moves and a special dance programme will between them is a half note The servient efficiency idea. same applies to the next stap. But The fugue by Bach which was not so the next, which is only half played to you in the studie concert the distance. The next three have following the first of the talks ie their half-stair in the step, but a perfect example of the inter Asked by his Worship why he did the top step is once again of only dependence of the team Itie, of it, defendant said that it was for half length. If you think it out,course, strong incat und you ain't no particular purpose, His Wor-it is an extraordinary thing that expected to get enjoyment at once it is understood, will be merely a An Ordinance to amend the ship at this stage told the defendant this scale has two abbreviations in from its mastication, lut if you curtain raiser of a few minutes Holidays Ordinance, 1812, is to be that he must be mad to do much it which, do not halanes at points join the ranks of the groping en- duration entitled A Medical Mis introduced in the Legislative thing without any purpose, and ask one third and two thirds of its thusiasts, you will get the keenest take. The main contribution will. ed if he wished to go to a lunatic length respectively. Actually, possible enjoyment out of the unbe a short comedy entitled Wheels Council today and New thisstipt this Orgjine is a deux Tears mark you one 5 a third of the ravelling of the threads of a skilful Within Wheel
S to make October 10 a permanentThe defendant, backway we and the thegi sekotopol panel writing such as the one. An attractive celebrity concert is Yet it is satisifying to the expiabutioned And, Although OE LAYIRSEU Toy Wednesday at nak general holiday, and to transfer to the favour.
Please don't ask why; one can only fugal example is close on two con when in addition to be dari C assume that it is because we are turies oll, the same principle of in prie of his popular recitals, Mr. used to it. Anyway, it is one of the movements of the members of Sit-San Me will render one or two those inconsistencies that make the team is carried out to this day groups of violin solos
Next week: Bome curiosities music so, absorbing and remote by all composer of note.
and experiments.” from the cut and dried sciences and arta
the first Monday in September the His Worship convicted the defen general holiday at present appoint dant and sentenced him to fourteen ed for the second Monday in days hard labour or pay & fine of October, 14 October 10 should be 823. He was also ordered to pay Bunday in any year the holiday 81 compensation, or in default, to is transferred to the following serve four further days imprison Monday..
issued to date, it is interesting to note is 1,2041)
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